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State University of New York
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For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Fort Schuyler – The
State University of New York Board of Trustees today approved the appointments
of 26 faculty to the rank of Distinguished Service Professor and Distinguished
Teaching Professor. Together with the Distinguished Librarian and the
Distinguished Professorship, they are the four designations that constitute
this highest system tribute conferred upon SUNY instructional faculty.
“The genius of SUNY faculty
lies not only in their intellectual capacity, but also in their surpassing
excellence in teaching and in their ability to apply their scholarship and
research in service to the campus and larger community in which we all live,” said
SUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Carl T. Hayden. “These SUNY faculty attract
students and scholars to our campuses, enhance the prestige of the entire
university and they are most deserving of highest academic rank the university
can bestow. My sincere gratitude and hearty congratulations go to them all.”
“SUNY faculty who receive appointment
to the rank of distinguished service professor and distinguished teaching
professor are nationally- and internationally-recognized scholars and
scientists of the highest academic distinction,” said SUNY Vice Chancellor and
Officer-in-Charge John J. O’Connor. “Each of these remarkable individuals has
met or exceeded the rigorous requirements for this promotion and I commend the
Board of Trustees for recognizing their talent and service by approving their
appointments to distinguished rank.”
The Distinguished Service
Professorship is conferred upon instructional faculty at SUNY’s
state-operated and community colleges who have achieved a notable reputation
for extraordinary service not only to the campus and to SUNY, but also to the
community, the State of New York and/or even the nation, by sustained effort in
the application of intellectual skills drawing from the candidate’s scholarly
and research interests to issues of public concern. Further, many candidates
for appointment have rendered influential service contributing at the
international level. To be eligible for the nomination, service must exceed the
work generally considered to be a part of a candidate’s basic professional work
(professional committees, etc.) and should include service that exceeds that
for which professors are normally compensated. More importantly, the service
must extend over multiple years. Receiving this promotion today are:
Professor Minna Barrett,
Psychology, SUNY Old Westbury
Professor Henry J.
Bokuniewicz, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook
University
Professor Carl I. Cohen,
Psychiatry, SUNY Downstate Medical University
Professor Mantosh J. Dewan,
Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Professor Joy L. Hendrick,
Kinesiology, SUNY Cortland
Professor John Lindsey, The
Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam
Professor H. Joseph
Straight, Mathematical Sciences, SUNY Fredonia
Professor Susan Strehle,
English, Binghamton University
Professor Mary Ellen
Zuckerman, School of Business, SUNY Geneseo
Professor Elaine S.
Padilla, Social Sciences, Rockland Community College
The Distinguished Teaching
Professorship recognizes and honors mastery of teaching at the graduate,
undergraduate or professional levels. For this prestigious tribute to be
conferred, candidates must have demonstrated consistently superior mastery of
teaching, outstanding service to students and commitment to their ongoing
intellectual growth, scholarship and professional growth, and adherence to
rigorous academic standards and requirements. Further, to be eligible for
nomination, a faculty member must have attained and held the rank of full
professor for five years, have completed at least three years of full-time
teaching on the nominating campus, 10 years of full-time teaching within the
SUNY System, and must have regularly carried a full-time teaching load as
defined by the campus. Receiving this promotion today are:
Professor Sekharipuram S.
Ravi, Computer Science, University at Albany
Professor Stephen A.
Lisman, Psychology, Binghamton University
Professor Anthony Preus,
Philosophy, Binghamton University
Professor Joseph Lauher,
Chemistry, Stony Brook University
Professor Steven Skiena,
Computer Science, Stony Brook University
Professor J. Edmund Bourke,
Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Professor Roger P.
Greenberg, Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical Center
Professor Andrea Guiati,
Modern and Classical Languages, Buffalo State College
Professor Olympia Nicodemi,
Mathematics, SUNY Geneseo
Professor Mac Adams, Visual
Arts, SUNY Old Westbury
Professor James R. Ebert,
Earth Sciences, SUNY Oneonta
Professor Gordon Pollard,
Anthropology, SUNY Plattsburgh
Professor Caroline Downing,
Art, SUNY Potsdam
Professor James Antonakos,
Computer Science, Broome Community College
Professor Philip Yale
Nicholson, History, Political Science and Geography, Nassau Community College
Professor William Costanzo,
English, Westchester Community College
Since the program’s inception
in 1963, SUNY has appointed 820 faculty to distinguished ranks, as follows,
including these most recent appointments: 262 Distinguished Professorships; 250
Distinguished Service Professorships; 306 Distinguished Teaching
Professorships; and 2 Distinguished Librarian Professorships. For more
information about SUNY’s faculty award program, please click
here.
At the SUNY State-operated
campuses, appointment to the Distinguished Service or Distinguished Teaching
level is a promotion that carries tenure in rank, if it has not already been
attained, and a salary increase of up to $2,500. (This is in addition to any
negotiated general salary increase). Such increases will be funded from the
campus budget through the normal process for funding promotions. The increase
is built into the salary base of the appointee, and it must be included in
campus budgets of ensuing years.
If the award is a change in faculty rank at the SUNY Community College, then
the State-operated campuses statement above applies. If it is an honorific
distinction, the community college will decide if there is a monetary sum
associated with the Distinguished Service or Distinguished Teaching award.
About the State University of New York
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York is the largest comprehensive university system in the United States, educating nearly 440,000 students in 7,669 degree and certificate programs
on 64 campuses. To learn more about how SUNY creates opportunity, visit www.suny.edu
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